The Water Resources Agency will set up a solar photovoltaic system at a reservoir in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan, as part of efforts to facilitate the implementation of the government's renewable energy development policy, the agency said Wednesday.

An ambulance was nearly swept away by a big wave caused by Typhoon Meranti in Pingtung County on Wednesday, as seen in one of the more dramatic Facebook live videos shot in Taiwan during the powerful storm.

More than 100 foreign fishery workers were invited to a charity event in Donggang, Pingtung Sunday where they were given free medical checkups and moon cakes as Taiwanese were to celebrate Moon Festival.

A scuba diver drowned at beach in Kenting on Thursday, while two other people were hospitalized after they almost drowned at a different beach in the popular tourist destination in southern Taiwan, according to a firefighter.

This is an overview of the first elementary school to be set up by followers of I-Kuan Tao (一貫道). Inaugurated on Monday, the school, dubbed Chunghua Bilingual Elementary School (崇華雙語小學), is located in the southern county of Pingtung. According to its followers, I-Kuan Tao is the belief in and worship of God (Lord of all souls).